Dame Angela Lansbury, who could sing, resented that in this and her other MGM movies, the studio insisted on giving her a voice double. In this film, her singing was dubbed by Doreen Tryden. Several years later, she had stage hits on Broadway in two singing roles, "Mame" and "Sweeney Todd."
By the three chevrons on Terry's uniform's left lower sleeve, he has been in the U.S. Army for at least 18 months and, by the single chevron on his lower right sleeve, he was wounded once in action.
Based on the life of Dempster McMurphy, a newspaper and utilities executive in Chicago, who set up a charity in the name of St. Dismas, the "Penitent Thief," or the "Thief on the Cross" as told in the story of the crucifixion of Jesus in the New Testament of the Bible.
This movie failed at the box-office, resulting in a loss of $918,000 ($12,400,000 in 2017) for MGM, according to studio records.